Donated by the naval officer’s descendants, the two letters are now on display at the Fukushima Museum in Japan to mark the ...

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Japan,a fascinating country with a rich cultural and historical legacy, stands as a remarkable blend of the ancient and the modern. This island nation has a past steeped in both triumphs and struggles ...

Japan’s 10-year government bond yield touched the highest level since 2008, increasing the risk that turmoil in the debt ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The top uniformed officers of Japan, the United States and South Korea will hold talks in Seoul next week, the Japanese Defense Ministry said Friday, in a bid to strengthen ...

BOOK EXCERPT A new book asks what made Japan Westernise rapidly during the Meiji era in the late 19th century An excerpt from ‘The Shortest History of Japan’, by Lesley Downer.

Meiji Holdings ended sales of almost all of its glass bottled milk and coffee beverages on Monday, marking the end of a product long intertwined with Japan’s sentō, or bathhouse, culture.

A formal ceremony heralded the start of the Japan's sumo wrestling season at the Meiji Jingu shrine on Tuesday, two months after a U.S. man was arrested for desecrating it.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.

An American tourist has been arrested in Japan for allegedly carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo. Steve Lee Hayes, 65, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of property ...

TOKYO — An American tourist has been arrested in Japan and accused of carving letters into a pillar of a gate to a shrine in Tokyo.